What have you done on your bike today?
- Thread starter The GOAT
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I must get the old KTM back on the road next year and pay a visit to old Erin. Never been. Shocking omission. All these years and never been to meet the neighbours. Looks lovely.
We still have a very small population so plenty of places like this Gimlet .. im naturally a person who stays away from organised fun but my wife encouraged me to meet up with the lads from the forum doing the Ireland trip.. from the first interaction with @Hugo Magnus and his lovely wife i knew people where what they said here and not bullshitters and it was fantastic to see the north and northwest of this island with such a small population.. @West Cork Paul put a super trip together.. id be up for it again should your grumpy self want some company
Was that the time I met you there CS? Good few years ago now. You were with your mate on an RC8R with a Jester pipe.
I used to enjoy my trips to Loomies when I lived down there. Once I'd found a twisty back road route that avoided the long boring Roman road section.
I remember one of my first rides on the Streetfighter after I'd got it back from Louigi Moto was to Loomies. The Petrol station down the road didn't sell E5 premium fuel so if my fuel light came on between Winchester and the cafe on the way in, which it usually did if I'd filled up at home, I always used to creep back to Winchester and fill up at Tesco where they had E5. This time with an extra 25 bhp on tap after Rich's tuning work it didn't make it and I was left stranded half way. Some nice chap driving past in his car stopped to offer help. It turned out he was also a Ducati owner with a 1098 SBK and he drove to Winchester and filled a can and brought it back to get me going. Wouldn't take a penny in payment either. When I opened my wallet to pay for the fuel and his trouble he was in his car and gone.
Hopefully I'll have a better winter work-wise this year than I did last. Then an Ireland trip will definitely be on the cards. If there's another forum tour I'd be happy top tag along. Ireland is a great destination from where I live because I'm only about a two to three hour ride from the Belfast ferry at Cairnryan and the ride west is a really nice one. Why I haven't done it already I don't know but it must be done soon.We still have a very small population so plenty of places like this Gimlet .. im naturally a person who stays away from organised fun but my wife encouraged me to meet up with the lads from the forum doing the Ireland trip.. from the first interaction with @Hugo Magnus and his lovely wife i knew people where what they said here and not bullshitters and it was fantastic to see the north and northwest of this island with such a small population.. @West Cork Paul put a super trip together.. id be up for it again should your grumpy self want some company
The Multi and the Ccm were both low on fuel. I asked my son to ris=de one of them to the filling station and I rode the other. We were going to have a short run up to Compton Abbas before lunch. Son took the Multi and when he went to pull away from the filling station the emergency flashers came on so we rode back home. It was then we noticed that the left hand switch gear was inoperative. On further investigation we noticed that the 6 pin socket had, somehow pulled out of the switchgear. All worked again when we plugged it back in and the flashers stopped so we went to C.Abbas It was very hot up there and surprisingly busy.
Decided to just go out for a pootle about 11.30 am, few miles down the road I realised I didn’t have my gloves on! Something I’ve never done in my life!!! Anyway back home gloves on and try again, all good until I got to garage to fuel up, about 4 miles away bloody clutch was playing up! Back home,bled the air out all good! Was only going for an hour but ended up Abergavenny, Builth,Rhayader Leominster and back to Hereford, nearly four hours in all, enjoyable and saw hundreds of bikes out but I’ve come to the conclusion a v4r is for the track and really not for the road ! Think my hips have given up